Keep the flowers coming all season.

If you have a rose bush, one way to ensure it retains its beauty year after year is through pruning. Not only does pruning roses control the plant's shape and size, but removing dead, damaged, or ...

A rose bush rarely declines all at once. The change is usually gradual. Flowers become smaller, leaves lose their freshness, ...

Whether it's climbing over an arbor or brightening a flower bed, roses reward a little attention with months of spectacular ...

Don Kinzler answers questions about the best time to prune a rose bush and cross-pollination. He also gives a reader a recommendation for an evergreen tree that won't grow taller than 25 feet ...

Don’t give up on your rose bush just yet.

Next spring I will be joining a rose tour in France, so I need to brush up on my French. I gathered up my French books and started by reviewing the chapter on how to ask questions, because if you want ...

Most plants need pruning in winter or spring, but these popular perennials need a midsummer trim if they're to flower and ...

As we enter the waning days of summer, many of our plants are just plain tired after enduring months of heat — and they’re showing it. Roses are no exception. They tend to get a bit leggy and ...

Hey gardeners! Valentine’s day is close at hand…and so is spring! The weather has moderated a bit and become a little more spring-like and who knows, maybe our final round of cold weather has passed.

Garden columnist Dan Gill answers readers' questions each week. To send a question, email Gill at gnogardening@agcenter.lsu.edu. I need some advice on pruning a climbing rose trained on a wrought iron ...

Pruning climbing roses is very different from pruning bush roses. For one thing, we rarely cut them back hard the way we do bush roses. That would defeat the purpose of planting a climbing rose — to ...